Club developments

Your donation will help us provide the facilities our kids deserve. At St. Sylvester’s, we have the ambition to build a first–class sports campus in Broomfield that matches the expectations & ambitions of our players and which reaches our needs as a incredibly fast-growing Club

CLUB DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A CLUB FOR ALL SEASONS 2020
On behalf of the Club Executive and the Broomfield Development Committee, we would like to invite you to an important event on Monday 26th June @ 8.00pm in the Grand Hotel.

As part of our club’s ambitions for a sports campus in Broomfield we are delighted to confirm that the new floodlights on pitch 2 are now operational.
This is a vital first step in the development of a full “all-weather” facility in Broomfield and represents an investment of almost €150k. This development has been funded by a combination of grant aid from the Sports Council and the “Gala Night” fund-raising event that was held in November 2016.

Continuing the great work of the past few years we are delighted to let you know that the club has successfully completed an initial application for a €150,000 sports council grant to assist in the development of a Broomfield sports campus to include a full size floodlit all weather astro training pitch. If our application is successful this funding will go in its entirety towards providing top class facilities for our kids.

In continuation of our quest to provide the best possible sporting facilities for our members our Facilities Development Group have documented the attached plan as illustrative of what we hope to achieve. It is pretty consistent with other plans developed over the years shows a practical roadmap for our facilities to be developed in a phased manner. We are submitting an application for Sports Grant Funding by 24th February and we wish to make members aware of the costs involved if we want to build an all-weather facility in Broomfield. An application for a grant does not commit us in any way at this stage. The plan attached is for illustrative purposes only and will undoubtedly change as we continue to engage.

I'm sure many you have seen the new targets painted onto the short side of the Ball Wall (see pic attached).
This is as a result of the great time & effort spent by our new Facilities Group lead by Eoin Farquharson & Aidan Lillis and helped by Liam Foley.
They plan to finish this project by completing the large side this Saturday (weather permitting) which will result in the closure of the large side of the wall.

Please see the attached regarding Capital Sports Grants. Paddy Miskelly is looking to pull together a small group to continue our long term facility planning and develop our case and application for a capital grant, If you would like to contribute to this process please contact Paddy.

The Gala Night at the Malahide Grand Hotel was an outstanding success and big big thanks to all who contributed and to our wonderful organising committee for a great night out. Chairman Ciaran Meehan presented special awards to our two very loyal and supportive Trustees Michael Howard and GV Wright in appreciation of their huge contributions to St Sylvesters GAA over the years. Peter supplied some pictures, we sure do scrub up well.

The Gala Night held last week in the Grand Hotel was a great success both financially and as an occasion to make the incredible energy, passion and commitment that has the potential to drive our club forward enormously in the years ahead. For those who attended the event, we hope you enjoyed the occasion and are looking forward to the 2016 event already!

Congratulations to Paddy Miskelly and he brilliant committee for a great night out where we raised much needed funds to complete the second side of the Ball Wall and improve our winter training facilities. It was a brilliantly organised event, great fun compered for the Apres Match funny guy Barry Murphy. Chairman Ciaran Meehan welcomed and thanked our guests and attendees, Paddy talked about our facilities development and thanked the people who brought the Ball Wall to reality and Dublin Football manager Jim Gavin gave up his time to commend the club,on our ambitions, reminded the lads that the guys who want it enough will play for Dublin and entertained us with comments about the great achievements of the Dubs. I will ask Paddy to send some comments and maybe someone has better pictures, mine are not great.

As most of you are aware we received a grant of €120,000 to erect floodlights on our pitches in Broomfield. This is part of our overall plan for to improve facilities in St Sylvesters. At this point, I think it important that we recognise the amount of work that went into securing this fantastic opportunity for St Sylvesters. So I want to thank the people that worked with me on the Broomfield Development Committee and indeed are committed to continue lead this process.

With more than 2,000 members, St Sylvester’s GAA club are the largest community based sporting organisation in Malahide. We rely heavily on the support and goodwill of many individuals and businesses to help us provide the services we offer to our young people and their extended families.
In the juvenile section alone (aged 4 to 16) we facilitate more than 800 girls & boys in organised sporting activities on a weekly basis.

As part of our development plans in Broomfield, I would like to remind members that we have now have a fully equipped modern gym on Broomfield. The gym is open for use for all paid up members. Glen Hazley is a recently qualified gym instructor and he has already arranged a training schedule on request for teams in all sections of the club. Glen can be contacted on 0876694290 Special thanks to CQA( click on their logo on the website for more info) for their support and sponsorship building the gym. Gavin from Joe Duffy Group has also donated equipment. Take a look at photos and see our senior football team during recent S&C training.
Many thanks to all for their continued support.
Ciaran Meehan
Chairman

The newest clubhouse updates had a soft unveiling last evening and everyone present were delighted with the layout and quality of our new club bar, it is modern, cosy and accessible directly from the street. Come down and see for yourself, I think you will love it. Big thanks to a club member who helped with the finance and great credit to all the people who volunteered their time and skills - plumbing, carpentry (beautiful work), electrics, sound system, painting and a whole lot more. Hopefully Joe will send me a note and name names, it is a great team effort, Bualla Bos agus Syls Abú.

At a short ceremony in Broomfield last Sunday we unveiled our new Ball Wall training facility. It's been 6 years in the making but it looks like it was worth waiting for and will be a great addition to the club. Andy Kettle brought the Dublin Hurling silverware and gave a nice talk to dedicate the wall to Tim Stack, one of the men who brought hurling to Malahide and whose family gave a generous donation that got us started on this development. Andrew Stack was very impressive in the way he remembered many of the early hurling men. Syls Chairman Mel McIntyre thanked all those who supported the effort including our local politicians who worked hard for our cause, Fingal CoCo, The National Lotto and particularly Brendan Bannigan, Mick Stuart and Eddie Sullivan who learned a lot more than they bargained for about land leasing, planning laws and other aspects of development in post Tiger Ireland.

At a short ceremony in Broomfield last Sunday we unveiled our new Ball Wall training facility. It's been 6 years in the making but it looks like it was worth waiting for and will be a great addition to the club. Andy Kettle brought the Dublin Hurling silverware and gave a nice talk to dedicate the wall to Tim Stack, one of the men who brought hurling to Malahide and whose family gave a generous donation that got us started on this development. Andrew Stack was very impressive in the way he remembered many of the early hurling men. Syls Chairman Mel McIntyre thanked all those who supported the effort including our local politicians who worked hard for our cause, Fingal CoCo, The National Lotto and particularly Brendan Bannigan, Mick Stuart and Eddie Sullivan who learned a lot more than they bargained for about land leasing, planning laws and other aspects of development in post Tiger Ireland.

When you get the weather in Malahide you are guaranteed a great day and we got the weather for our 2013 Golf Classic at the lovely Malahide Golf Club. We had 35 teams participating, fabulous prizes from Wrights of Marino, on course food from Spring Valley Meats and the Scotch Bonnet, we had Risteard Cooper back at the club, he's a funny guy, and a great evening. Many thanks to all the sponsors and players for supporting Syls and big thanks and well done Elaine, Ronnie, Declan, Brendan, GV and Dave for a job well done.

Last Thursday was a great day for the Club, great turnout (300+), all sections represented, with players happy to see the support from the broader membership, parents able to see the future in GAA for their kids, senior members proud to see the club they nurtured over the years blossoming and committee members, team mentors etc. encouraged to see an endorsement of their efforts. The unanimous support for the resolution was a vote of confidence in the future development of St. Sylvester's.

For about a nanosecond in late July we wondered could we get a 200 quorum to show up to a meeting to clear the way to draw down Lotto money for our Ball Wall development. We were sure that if we asked our members to show up that they would oblige and so it was. Over 300 people signed in at the meeting, a great show of force by St Sylvesters and the Executive Committee would like to thank you all, we know it is not always easy, and now we are ready to proceed with our next major development.

The Lá Na gClub sponsored walk was a fantastic success with beautiful weather. A big THANK YOU to all who participated & supported St Sylvester’s GAA
Club first sponsored Annual Walk on Sunday . There was a great turn out of members, families and friends for the walk around the Castle ground.
This was followed by a lively get-together at the Club. The weather was superb, we could not have asked for better! Great credit is due to the organisers
for all the preparations necessary to make the day a great success. Robert Rooney takes the congratulations for managing this great event which was
enjoyed by the young & not so young alike! Bridgefield was decorated in nature’s best, the dressing rooms were also resplendent in green thanks to,
Rod Fitpatrick, Eddie Sullivan, Gerry Shiels & Robert Rooney. We are very grateful to all who helped out on the day.

The Executive Committee of St Sylvester’s GAA Club hereby give notice of its intention to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the registered full members to be held on
Friday, 20th November 2009 at 8.30 p.m.
At
2 Church Road, Malahide

St Sylvester’s did it with style, the Mid Summer Ball in the Grand Hotel was a night to be proud of. An enormous debt of gratitude is owed to the fundraising committee led by Anthony Cooney, John Cox and John McCormack the organising committee led by Francine Bannigan they put together a night to remember.

There was a small reception in the Grand Hotel last evening to mark the sponsorship of our proposed Training Wall development by the family of the late Tim Stack who started the first hurling team in Syls.